Zibbatu
HR 7203 · HIP 9353 · 112 Psc
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.89 mag
- Parallax
- 29.85 mas → about 109.3 light-years away
- Spectral type
- G2IV
- Right ascension
- 30.0376°
- Declination
- 3.0976°
- Bayer designation
- 112 Psc
- HIP number
- 9353
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-09-17
- Name language
- Akkadian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Zibbatu is Akkadian for The Tails, referring to the "Tails of the Swallow", an asterism in the Mesopotamian constellation of The Swallow (SIM.MAḪ), which has been used in the Astronomical Diaries of Babylon for many centuries BCE to describe planet positions in Pisces.
Source:ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 109 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1917 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 3.1° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
Worked out from this object's official values.